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W T Stille

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PubMed1982

The mortality experience of upstate New York talc workers.

Deaths for a 31-year period (1948-1978) were analyzed in a historical prospective cohort study of 655 white male talc workers. Death rates from all causes, from cancer of the respiratory system, and from nonmalignant respiratory disease were not significantly different from those of the U.S. white male population. However, significant differences for these causes of death were found among workers who had previous occupational histories. An analysis of the latency periods of the observed lung cancer suggests that exposure to an etiologic agent during previous work experience may play a role in the development of lung cancer.

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PubMed1968

Chemoprophylaxis.

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Hazard detection by illness pattern similarities.

Health hazard detection was investigated by using cluster analysis of illness patterns of occupational groups. This approach was expected to avoid the bias problems of simple illness rates and to detect hazards by their effects on illness severity. The practical use of this approach lead to the following criterion: an environmental exposure of people associated with an illness pattern typical of a more advanced age is a health hazard. The use of this criterion and methodology is widely applicable in industry and the prospect for further improvement in detection methods is good.

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Hepatitis A epidemics from utility sewage in Ocoee, Florida.

The 1988-1989 hepatitis A epidemic in the Palms section of Ocoee, Florida, followed sewage overflows and involved 39 cases and a fetal death. Of the 18 index cases (i.e., the first hepatitis illness in a household), each had a history of contact with sewage-contaminated stormwater and no other known contact with the infection. Illnesses varied from mild to severe; 20 people reported that diarrhea, abdominal pain, varying degrees of ascites, and other symptoms continued for 2 y after the initial illness. Health injuries up to 20 y of lost life, measured by CEA-Clinical Epidemiological AnalysisSM, were found. Public records of rainfall and sewage flows provide evidence of massive stormwater entry into the utility system, which periodically appears to have flushed sewage from the utility lift station into residential areas.

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